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CareerQA: Get Information & Ask Questions About Career Paths

Dave LeClair — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:01:01 +0000

Deciding on a career is probably one of the most important decisions any of us will have to make in life. After all, the career you choose will more or less lay out the course for your life. Will you be happy at your job? Will you make enough money? Do you have the skills [...]

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CompressNow: Easily Compress The Size Of JPG, GIF, JPEG & PNG Pictures

MOin — Fri, 24 May 2013 04:01:53 +0000

There are lots of times when an Internet user wishes that the digital images they are working with were a smaller size. Just because of the size of a picture, one has to face waiting times in numerous situations. For example, if you are attaching an image with an email or uploading it on a [...]

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HTML5up: Offers Great Looking, Responsive Templates To Edit & Use

Justin Pot — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:01:23 +0000

Do you need a personal website, quickly, and prefer not to deal with setting up a CMS? HTML5up has you covered. This collection of slick, animated websites are free to download – and use. This means that, with a little bit of tweaking, you’ll have a fast, professional site set up quickly. Even better, most [...]

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FatURL: Easily Share Multiple URL’s Simultaneously Through A Single Link

Umar — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:01:35 +0000

Normally to share multiple URLs with a friend, we share the links individually. If you absolutely need to share all the links together you could, perhaps, email the links to your friend. Alternatively, if you are feeling a bit more creative, you can create a shareable folder on your online bookmarking service and add the [...]

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Timecamp: A Better Way To Keep Track Of Time For Better Billing

Dave LeClair — Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:53 +0000

Are you looking for a better way to keep track of how you are spending your time? For freelancers, accurately keeping track of time for billing purposes is incredibly important. After all, you want to make sure you are paid the full amount for the time you provide the client, and the client wants to make [...]

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Xday for Android: A Countdown Timer App & Widget For The Impatient

Tim Brookes — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:01:00 +0000

Counting down the days to an event can be laborious, but thankfully we now have our smartphones to do it for us. That’s exactly what Xday does, a free Android app for those of you who are looking forward to your next birthday, holiday or important date. A tool for crunching time and numbers, Xday’s [...]

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CoolFillerItem.com: A List Of Cheap Filler Items For Claiming Amazon Super Saver Delivery

Tim Brookes — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:01:00 +0000

How often have you been shopping on Amazon, only to fall short of their free shipping quota of $25 or more? Provided you don’t need your items urgently, it almost always makes more sense to add another item that pushes you over the threshold than to pay for shipping outright. Much of the time, buying [...]

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Extensity: Easily Enable & Disable Chrome Extensions

Joshua Lockhart — Thu, 23 May 2013 04:01:07 +0000

If you’ve ever visited MakeUseOf’s Best Chrome Extensions page, then there’s a high chance you have quite a few of them installed on your machine. There’s no shame in that! After all, that page has some really great downloads. However, it can get a bit cumbersome to have all of those extensions on your browser. Sometimes it [...]

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LoaderDroid: Get More Control While Downloading Files [Android]

Justin Pot — Thu, 23 May 2013 02:01:14 +0000

You don’t want that download on your phone to stop when you leave the house, but you also don’t want it to continue while you’re in transit – your data plan isn’t unlimited. If this sounds familiar, look into LoaderDroid. This Android download manager is packed with features, including the ability to pause and resume [...]

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myQuests: Manage Tasks In a Stylish Interface & Share Your Quests With Others [iOS]

moin — Thu, 23 May 2013 00:01:55 +0000

Are you looking for a stylish iOS application to manage your tasks and even share them? If yes, then what you want is a tool called myQuests. myQuests is a free to use smart device application compatible with iOS devices. The application is sized at nearly 9 MB and requires your iPod Touch, iPhone, or [...]

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LinksWatched: Get Warnings While Opening a Duplicate Tab In Mozilla Firefox

moin — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:01:08 +0000

Do you work with a lot of browser tabs at the same time? If so, then you will be aware of the fact that sometime we open up duplicate tabs because we lose track of all the tabs we have already got opened. Here to help you avoid duplicate tabs is something called LinksWatched. LinksWatched [...]

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ClippingMagic: Easily Remove The Background Of Any Image You Have

Umar — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:01:15 +0000

If you have photographed something and you want to upload it online to sell it, it is probably best to remove the background of the image. Typically, people already have this in mind and take the picture of the object against a white background or a plain colored background. But if you have forgotten to [...]

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Design Something: A Chrome App To Create & Share 3D Design Models

Umar — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:05:21 +0000

Design Something is a free to use browser application that lets you create 3D models with ease. The application comes for Google Chrome and once you install it, a shortcut for it appears on the New Tab page. Clicking on this shortcut will take you to the PublishYourDesign’s model creation interface. You will find a [...]

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CupCloud: Store Your Computer Usage Sessions & Easily Load Them On Other Machines

Umar — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:01:04 +0000

CupCloud is a free to use web service that is currently in its beta. The application provides a very efficient solution to an inconvenience that many of us face – resuming our work on a different computer than the one we are currently using. Even if it is not a different computer that you are [...]

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TuneBash: Stream Music On The Go, Follow Favorite Bands & More [iOS]

Dave LeClair — Wed, 22 May 2013 02:01:08 +0000

Are you looking for a slick iOS application that lets you stream some of your favorite music, follow the artists you enjoy, keep track of when the bands you like are coming to your town, and lots of other cool stuff involving music? Who wouldn’t love an app that lets them enjoy their music in [...]

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WigFlip: A Collection Of Convenient Web Apps That Will Benefit Graphics Designers

Umar — Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:18 +0000

Graphics designers have to play with images and designs on a daily basis. While the overall design and ideas need to be unique, there are lots of little things that designers find themselves doing on a frequent basis. For example, you could find yourself creating rounded corners. Or you could even find yourself making a [...]

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Call Filter Alarm: Choose People Who Can Call To Wake You Up [Android]

azim — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:01:41 +0000

A lot of people use their smartphone as a people alarm clock, meaning that they let other people call them at a specified time in the morning or day to wake them up. However, if you simply leave your smartphone turned on when you go to sleep, there is a risk that anyone can call [...]

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PDF Slicer Free: Use Your iPhone To Easily Edit PDF Documents

moin — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:01:26 +0000

Do you often work with PDF files on your iOS device? Are you using a premium application in order to edit your PDF documents? If yes, then you should definitely check out PDF Slicer Free because you will enjoy what it has to offer. PDF Slicer Free is a free to use smart device application [...]

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SignEasy: Easily Sign Digital Documents On Your iOS Device

moin — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:01:06 +0000

Have you ever hurried to your boss’s office to get a document signed and then forgotten to bring the document? If yes, then you are fully familiar with how difficult it can be to remember to carry the physical documents that you require. This is particularly true when you want to get something signed – [...]

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Twipster: Turns Twitter.com Into a Minimalist Twitter Client

Justin Pot — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:09:35 +0000

Strip down Twitter to it’s bare essentials. If you’re tired of the social network best known for simplicity cluttering its website with sidebars and background, Twipster was designed for you. By developer Brent Jackson, this browser plugin – offered for Safari and Chrome users – turns Twitter into what it should be: a list of [...]

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